Graveside services for Robert Elgin Petrie, 89, Cox Mill Road, will
be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Riverside Cemetery, with the Rev. Thomas W.
Eblen officiating.
Visitation will be from 4 until 7 tonight at Hughart and Beard Funeral
Home, Hopkinsville.

He died at 3:05 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, 2000, at Jennie Stuart Medical
Center following a long illness.

A native of Fairview, he was born Sept. 20, 1910, the son of the late
John Wesley and Kate E. Layne Petrie. He was a self-employed tobacconist
and was a co-owner of Petrie and Altsheler Liquor Store, Skyline Drive.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Irene Deason Petrie; two daughters, Patricia
Knight and Ann Petrie, both of Hopkinsville; three grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren.